A Review of Triberr and the Spin Sucks Analytics

It’s been a month that I’ve been a member of Triberr. I’ve had lots of direct messages, emails, and Facebook messages asking what the heck it is and how I like it.

So I’m here to tell you.

For those of you who don’t know, or haven’t seen the shorted tribr link, Triberr is a way for you to retweet the work of bloggers you know and trust. According to Dino Dogan and Dan Cristo, the founders, “every time you publish a new post, everyone in your tribe will tweet it to their followers. And you do the same for everyone in your tribe.”

I’ll be honest. It felt really icky to me at first. I was automatically tweeting blog posts that I hadn’t yet read. Granted, the tweets were of people I already read and typically RT anyway, but I still hated seeing that in my stream without having read the post.

But Dino and Dan listened to their tribes and made some changes. Now the blog posts are stored in your cue and you can schedule it or delete it before it hits your stream. I like this A LOT better because that gives me time to read WTH I’m tweeting. It feels less like I don’t know what’s going on and more like I’m scheduling those tweets, just like I’ve done since I started on Twitter.

But you know what I like best about it? The stats!

Of course, you’ll say, you love stats, Gini.

It’s no secret that our goal is to drive highly engaged traffic. And lots of it. Triberr helps us do that. Extremely well.

For instance, when I compare Spin Sucks analytics from March 8-April 7 and January 8-February 7 (I didn’t compare to February because it was a short month and not a fair comparison), I found:

Traffic is up 59 percent

Pageviews are up 140 percent

Pages per visit are up 51 percent

Bounce rate is down 51 percent

Average time on site is up 24 percent

New visits are up three percent

Twitter referrals are up 155 percent

My own Twitter followers have increased by five percent, but I don’t think that’s Triberr because that number is consistent with the organic growth I’ve had month-by-month without the service.

Just like Livefyre, I’d like to take some credit for the content and the community, but Triberr has helped us significantly increase our goals. What I’m going to track is what happens during the next month as more people are introduced, and form an either love or hate opinion, to Triberr. That will help me completely determine if this tribal automation tool is useful or not.

But I do know I’m going to begin building my own tribes now. If one of your goals is to increase traffic and pageviews, I think it’s worth it!

thanks for responding, from what i understood of your response i went to triberr and checked out their sections and i think my blog falls into the Health and fitness category, my blog is favorazzi.com you may check it out to confirm my guess.

Well I did try it in the beginning and did not get much of an impression. But now you are saying it is much better than before. So I will give it another try. Thanks for the message. If it is such a great traffic builder, it is going to be good for every blogger. Thanks for the post and new added info.

I am going to give it a try, but I do have one concern. I don't mind tweeting people's blogs, whom I like and find wonderful. I just worry about them RTing mine, as most of my blog posts, aren't really posts but chapters in my novels. Not very exciting to read, out of context. I wouldn't want to mess up the tribe. All my really good posts I give to Gini and Shanoli. The left over dreck I use for my blog. But I suppose it is worth understanding.

100% agree with you Gini. And in addition to the greater reach that we get through our tribes, I've gotten introduced to some excellent folks such as yourself that I didn't know before. I know, gasp, shock. But it's true, and I'm sure you had no idea who I was.

I cannot keep up with all the cool stuff you find! Just yesterday I got hooked on PostRank (cannot believe I have never heard of it but then again I am a newbie blogger) and now Triberr? I have always loved the idea of tribes and the power that one can provide to you as a growing professional and your idea as a growing business. Thanks for all these great tool review posts! Jumping into the Triberr now...

What stopped me from being an early adopter of this one (and I usually am!) is that I not only didn't have an invite, but the "tribes" seemed to be organized around subjects. I have a general philosophy that in changing times the future belongs to people who cross disciplines and can think on their feet. I wasn't one to be put into a box and didn't pay a lot of attention to this particular service for that reason.

It's interesting - I didn't see any increase in traffic apart from an initial spike, and then it reverted back to normal. I've since left the initial Triberr tribe I was in, and started an individual tribe that concentrates more on bloggers I'd really be relevant to/with, so I'll be watching that one instead.

Then again, Twitter's always been a tertiary source of traffic for me - Google and direct (RSS, shared email links) have been far more effective. And I also use Twitterfeed, which I feel has a better solution that Triberr (currently).

I just joined up with Triberr last night. It seems to me that Triberr is a good resource for promoting your blog posts through like minded twitter users. But overall, I find that there is a lot of noise on twitter and often I don't get a majority of my traffic from there. However, that said, I can't gainsay a service that helps me promote my posts to more people.

@ExtremelyAvg The beauty of Triberr is you're in a tribe with people who read and tweet your stuff anyway. So it wouldn't be a burden on them to tweet your chapters, if that were your goal. If it's not, then Triberr isn't a good tool for you. The tribe of mockers you're looking for? They're on Facebook.

@Danny Brown I'd be interested to hear if there is a change in traffic for your bloggers tribe. And you're right on the Twitter traffic. Just when I'd hoped to move away from it being our number one referrer, I begin to experiment with Triberr.

@ginidietrich I wouldn't say call it access I would call it introduction. Prior to Dino's invitation to join Anubis I spent most of my time interacting with parent, political bloggers and the jblogosphere.

Triberr helped remind me about how many interesting people there are in the blogosphere and it has been a real benefit.

@3HatsComm Hmmm....let me get the old dreck machine up and running and see what I can do. I have an idea about a party where everyone is deaf and talking, with delusions that they are building a network. What do you think?

@KenMueller@Danny Brown +1 on Twitterfeed. I also have friends who aren't in my Triberr tribes who's content I really like to share. TwitterFeed makes that automatic. And another cool feature is that you can see the click stats on the tweets, so you can find out what your peeps on Twitter are most enjoying, and perhaps create a follow-up post of your own.

I use it to send out posts by bloggers I read regularly and trust implicitly with content.

For example, the @bonsaica account uses Twitterfeed, along with a couple of other accounts I set up to be blog respository feeds. I can choose which Twitter account it goes out; if it has an intro; hashatgs and more.

@ExtremelyAvg For some odd reason this reminds me of some silly tweet I shared.. about a 'new' social network that's flat and comes in different shapes and people sit around it and talk, maybe even eat or play cards. IIRC it was called 'Table.' FWIW.

@Danny Brown@bonsaica ah, understood. But I guess where it varies from Triberr is that while you are sending them out, they aren't necessarily sending yours out. Which isn't necessarily bad, but I guess Triberr has the built in "you scratch my back, i'll scratch your back" approach.

@faybiz@ginidietrich@ExtremelyAvg I'll take traffic from wherever I get it. I get heavy visits from Twitter, FB, and LinkedIn. doesn't matter where it comes from as long as they come, and as long as it helps me generate business. so far so good!

@ExtremelyAvg I believe Twitter is going to die an untimely death and then I'll be stuck with a loss of 30 percent of our traffic overnight. So I'm working pretty hard to move more eggs into the referral basket.

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